2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 627 people earned their degree in East Asian studies, making the major the 535th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 5 East Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 East Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in East Asian studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in East Asian studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Studies in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s East Asian studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about East Asian Studies at University of Kansas
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Creighton University landed the #2 spot on the list. Creighton University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Omaha, Nebraska. It awarded 0 masters’s East Asian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on East Asian Studies at Creighton
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. WUSTL is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on East Asian Studies at Washington University in St Louis
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References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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